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Intermediary quantitative traits--an alternative in the identification of disease genes in asthma?
Genes and immunity - 1 Jan 2014
Sargurupremraj M, Pukelsheim K, Hofer T, Wjst M
Abstract excerpt
Intermediary quantitative traits are a possible alternative for the identification of disease genes. This may be particularly relevant when diagnostic criteria are not very well defined as described for asthma. We analyzed serum samples from 944 individuals of 218 asthma families for 17 cytokines (eotaxin, GM-CSF, IFNγ, IL1B, IL1RA, IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IL-12(p40), IL-13, IL-17, IL-23, IL-33, TSLP and...
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